White House Muzzles CDC Chief on Climate Health Impacts

onOct 24, 2007 @ 08:56 PDT

The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate.

A draft of the testimony submitted for White House review shows that six pages of details about specific disease and other health problems that might flourish if the Earth warms were not delivered at the hearing.

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Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States

ByJoe Fassler

onDec 12, 2025 @ 12:55 PST

As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.

us/These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.

ByJoe Fassler

onDec 12, 2025 @ 02:00 PST

Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?

Series: Tech vs. Climate

Series: Tech vs Climate

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

ByGeoff Dembicki

onDec 11, 2025 @ 08:50 PST

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda, Tech vs. Climate

Series: MAGA, Tech vs Climate